MS. Bodl. 208
Summary Catalogue no.: 2033
Contents
With marginal notes.
On fols. ii-vi, 157 are theological notes written with a metal stylus, and partly illegible.
Physical Description
Front endleaves: non-medieval pencil Roman numerals ii-vi in top RH corner.
Main text: seventeenth-century ink Arabic numerals 1-156 in top RH corner.
Back endleaves: non-medieval pencil Arabic numeral 157-159 in top RH corner.
Collation
Quires 3-7 and 11 numbered with Roman numerals III-VII and XI in ink.
All in black ink, in bottom RH corner, first words of next quire (unless otherwise stated), appear the end of quires 3, 7-13, 15-16, 18. Also at the beginning of quires 4-6 and 12 in bottom LH corner, beginning of quire 6 has the last word of the previous quire.Layout
2 columns of c. 50 lines, ink- and plummet-ruled. Pricking in inner margin. Ruled space: 230 × 135 mm. Line height: 5mm.
Hand(s)
Fols. 1r-146v written in a protogothic hand
Fols. 147r-156v written in a hand with more Gothic features
Decoration
in red and blue, 2–20 lines high. 5 on each side of the folio on average.
Binding
s. xv
340 × 235 × 60 mm.
Endleaves: At the front, a fragment pastedown in situ, possibly at one time wrapped around the following endleaves, but now a little distorted; followed by 8 non-fragment leaves bound as a quire, where leaves 4, 5, and 8 are stubs, with some text in ?plummet. At the back, the final leaf of the last quire is blank; followed by a non-fragment bifolium with a wide stub, and a non-fragment pastedown in situ, these have plummet some plummet and ink text and pen trials.
Sewing: Sewn at five sewing stations (measured in mm): 55, 110, 160, 215, 265 from the top of the spine.
Boards: Wooden boards around 7mm thick, including cover. The sewing supports enter the boards from the outside. Boards have some bevelling and do not project beyond the bookblock.
Endbands: Braided light brown leather endbands.
Cover: Whittawed leather cover. Turn ins mostly pared at either board, with tongued mitres in the visible corners.
Fastenings and furniture: Two pairs of holes, and damage to cover at foredge of upper board, with corresponding pairs of three nails and verdigris at foredge of lower board are the remains of two clasps.
Chaining: Chain-staple holes from Bodleian (top RH corner of upper board) and St George's Chapel, Windsor (bottom centre of upper board).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Witham, charterhouse (?): '"Witham" (s. xv), written small near the top of fol. ii recto. Whether it indicates that the MS comes from W. Charterhouse is doubtful.' (MLGB)
Windsor, collegiate chapel: 'Liber Collegij de Wyndesore', 16th cent.
Presented by the dean and canons of Windsor in 1612.
MS. Bodl. 208 - front pastedown
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Reject leaf. Text begins in the same place as fol. 147r in main manuscript, with 'imperatorum et incommoda' and ends with 'Et considerans ubi esset uenit'
Physical Description
Layout
Two columns of 49 lines. Written space: 230 × 135 mm. Line height: 5mm.
Hand(s)
Same as fols. 1r-146v of main manuscript.
Decoration
One red initial 4 lines high, with green pen-flourishes.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Bibliography
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-21: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.